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[suiwu]

Hi, Chun-Nan,

I tried to download the IOPCMCIAFamily for 10.5.6 from mediafire, yet unfortunately I cannot go to that website from China. Could you and anybody sent the file directly to my e-mail suisum2@yahoo.com.cn?
Thanks a lot!

Suiwu.

[black_hacker]

Hi Slice,greetings
I had been using chun-nan IOPCIFamily.kext and IOPCCardFamily.kxt for my wireless and wired detection problem and it worked great. I had been interesting using your IOPCIFamily.kext cos you say that it improve interrupt handler and make mouse cursor move more smooth. Than I'm using your kext, and what happen ? My wired and wireless are not working anymore. How about that Slice. Thanx

[Espionage724]

I was using this driver to fix my ethernet port (acer has some uber way to make the ethernet difficult on OS X) and it was working fine on 10.5 to 10.5.5 but on 10.5.6 I get a kernel panic when trying to use PCIFamily.kext so am I doing something wrong? Or is the PCIFamily thing not up-to-date?

EDIT: Nvm just ignore that comment totally...I tried that PCMCIA thing and it detects my ethernet and gives it a MAC but I can't get to the desktop (not even the blue screen that appears before the desktop) If I type -v in boot options, Im stuck on that screen it doesn't switch over....

EDIT2: Tried that console repair permissions thing mentioned in an earlier reply and it worked although I ran disk repair before so i don't know why I had to do that console thing. Verified working and I have ethernet back!

[zyeung]

Hi, everyone,

Thank you all very much, especially for Chun-Nan.

I installed the kalyway 10.5.2 on my T60 and updated to 10.5.3 via the kalyway 10.5.3 comboupdate package.

It's a dualboot with XP and I didn't make an extra partition, for all were NTFS except the Leo partition, for the data transfer between XP and Leo. I then bought a CF-based PC card reader. Before came to here, it didn't work for me, no response in the desktop and the system profile. It made me frustrated~~

After a went through of this thread, I replaced the IOPC* from the beta3 package, do the permissions reparation, reboot, then it woks. Cheer~~

Thanks again...

[puyi]

Happy New Year

IOPCMCIAFamily.kext and IOPCMICIAFamily.Leopard.kext both work well except I am having a problem with shutdown and reboot.
If I start up using -v, when I shutdown my system hangs at the verbose screen with

failed to unmount /home (45)
failed to unmount /net (45)
...cpu...halted...ok to shutdown

If I reboot either with gui or using Terminal, the system goes to a black screen with power, and led lights still on.

If I startup without any special commands, shutdown leaves with an empty desktop. I don't recall exactly what happens with reboot but I do know it doesn't work.

I can live with shutting down manually but I'd still like a fix for this problem.

Christopher
Vaio SZ150P
Kaylway 10.5.1 > 10.5.3 (netkas) > 10.5.5 (System Update)
Voodoo Kernel Release 1

[Espionage724]

Happy New Year

IOPCMCIAFamily.kext and IOPCMICIAFamily.Leopard.kext both work well except I am having a problem with shutdown and reboot.
If I start up using -v, when I shutdown my system hangs at the verbose screen with

failed to unmount /home (45)
failed to unmount /net (45)
...cpu...halted...ok to shutdown

If I reboot either with gui or using Terminal, the system goes to a black screen with power, and led lights still on.

If I startup without any special commands, shutdown leaves with an empty desktop. I don't recall exactly what happens with reboot but I do know it doesn't work.

I can live with shutting down manually but I'd still like a fix for this problem.

Christopher
Vaio SZ150P
Kaylway 10.5.1 > 10.5.3 (netkas) > 10.5.5 (System Update)
Voodoo Kernel Release 1

Wait you use both kexts together?

[puyi]

Espionage724,

With EITHER kext I have the same problem.

[sdonner]

Hi guys,

Have been busy recently and haven't touched mac very much. I uploaded alpha IOPCMCIAFamily for 10.5.6 on the mediafire. You can give it a try.

http://www.mediafire.com/chunnan

Happy holidays.

Chun-Nan


P.S. Just put the WHOLE IOPCMCIAFamily on the Extensions folder and it should be loaded before the vanilla IOPCIFamily and IOPCCardFamily. Remember to fix the file permission or you might have to boot with "-f" everytime.

Hey Chun-nan.

Sorry for the late reply - didn't had the time to play around the last 2 month.

I tried your new IOPCMCIAFamily.kext with 10.5.2 but no success.
First issue - the same old bad bridge mapping thing... but even worse - I could not boot with it, not even after putting out the pcmcia adapter card.
Then I tried with 10.5.5... same thing here.
Then 10.5.6 and your 10.5.6 version of the kext - same mistake again.
But now there comes the interesting part - my system has 4 GB Ram, and I just tried putting out 2 GB... voila - the card is recognized ... I don't know if it's really working but at least it seems to be detected right.

Unfortunately I still can't boot with IOPCMCIAFamily.kext. Tried a ton of combinations of different kexts but no success.

The attached picture shows system with 2GB and pcmcia-adapter booting with -v... (at this point it stucks)
it's basically the same with 4gb except for showing bad bridge mapping etc. ... and it's also the same without pcmcia card except that there is nothing about the adapter card.

At least this seems to point to the right direction and I really start believing that in my case, the problem is not (and never has been) the kext or the adapter card but something else on the system.

Any idea?

here are my specs:
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 (Rev2) - P35 + ICH9
Q6600, 4GB Ram, 8600GT, PCMCIA Card with Ricoh chip
500GB SATA HDD and SATA DVD connected to ICH9 south bridge
iPC 10.5.6

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[Tek_No]

Hey Chun-nan.

Sorry for the late reply - didn't had the time to play around the last 2 month.

I tried your new IOPCMCIAFamily.kext with 10.5.2 but no success.
First issue - the same old bad bridge mapping thing... but even worse - I could not boot with it, not even after putting out the pcmcia adapter card.
Then I tried with 10.5.5... same thing here.
Then 10.5.6 and your 10.5.6 version of the kext - same mistake again.
But now there comes the interesting part - my system has 4 GB Ram, and I just tried putting out 2 GB... voila - the card is recognized ... I don't know if it's really working but at least it seems to be detected right.

Unfortunately I still can't boot with IOPCMCIAFamily.kext. Tried a ton of combinations of different kexts but no success.

The attached picture shows system with 2GB and pcmcia-adapter booting with -v... (at this point it stucks)
it's basically the same with 4gb except for showing bad bridge mapping etc. ... and it's also the same without pcmcia card except that there is nothing about the adapter card.

At least this seems to point to the right direction and I really start believing that in my case, the problem is not (and never has been) the kext or the adapter card but something else on the system.

Any idea?

here are my specs:
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 (Rev2) - P35 + ICH9
Q6600, 4GB Ram, 8600GT, PCMCIA Card with Ricoh chip
500GB SATA HDD and SATA DVD connected to ICH9 south bridge
iPC 10.5.6

Now THAT could really make sense: I have been trying for months now to get pcmcia back working on my HP8710p (as it was working months ago) using all available versions of chun-nan's kexts but with the exact same problems as you're describing here. I never thought about this before but the only thing that has been changed inside my laptop are:
- a bigger and faster hdd
- 4Gb of RAM instead of 2Gb

So the 4GB could indeed be the reason why it was working fine for me before the upgrade and it isn't after...

Take care,
Tek_No

[oline]

- 4Gb of RAM instead of 2Gb

So the 4GB could indeed be the reason why it was working fine for me before the upgrade and it isn't after...

Take care,
Tek_No

Hi Tek_No
I reduced my ram by two gig , back to 2 gig from 4gig, my PCMCIA slot worked with the 4 gig but, was flaky and caused lock ups. now it's back to 2 gig and all is well on my 10.5.4 partition.

10.5.6 is another story, apple changed the ground rules yet again, I have not had time to play with chun-nans newest pcmcia kext, but should be able to do that in a week or so I hope.

Cheers
oline

[b:z]

You need to replace IOPCCardFamily.kext of iPC by the file of other vendor (Kalyway, iAKTOS, ..). Then, time to apply PCMCIA file

[sdonner]

You need to replace IOPCCardFamily.kext of iPC by the file of other vendor (Kalyway, iAKTOS, ..). Then, time to apply PCMCIA file

tried that with the one from iatkos 10.5.4. ...
didn't change anything, sry.

[razorbac]

for my acer extensa 5220 it's all ok. just install with kexthelper and reboot. sorry for my bad english

[djmastera2000]

hello chunnan,

your new version b2 from 01.04.2009 works fine again on 10.5.6

THX

[oline]

Hello Chun-nan,

Just had time to try PCMCIAFamily.kext from Dec 1-08 on new clean 10.5.6 partition, Sys profiler shows multiply pci-bridges,
about an extra 15 of them. all seems to work except the ATA Optical drive has disappeared from my system.

I used kexthelper to install the kexts, Chunnan thanks for the tip on that little program.

I then tried B1 then B2 kexts, and they both caused a hang on grey boot up screen.

looks like 10.5.6 is a problem for now, as Apple has changed the kext version.

Oh well, back to stable 10.5.5 for now and keep working. I would love to be able to write my own kexts but I'll leave
that in the hands of experts like Chunnan and others here.

Cheers
Oline

[rainstorm]

hi bro;
what for b2? for snow (10.6)?

[alvaromf]

i get this error on My inspiron 9300 running idneb 10.5.5
i used b2
i think i am missing something!

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[atinkakero]

I use IOPCMCIAFamily.b2
No driver installed..
Any solution?

[lolipop]

hey guys, i've recently read chunans topic in how to install PCCardFamily and PCIFamily...
I installed it and saved the original ones on desktop..right after i rebooted, the kernel panicked! It showed me a screen where it said that Mac OSX version was not yet set! and didnt boot...afterwards i read like 1000 threads on how to solve it and i couldnt find the answer...now, i try to boot with -x or -f, and everything goes right untill login security window...After that, it doesnt show the Mac OSX enviroment...instead it stays on darwin and i type in my password and click enter, and still stays in darwin.. Note: i typed in the password without even seeing the Mac OSX interface...Like, when i saw darwin saying that login window had started, and when it didnt load any login window and stayed on the darwin interface, i typed the password and clicked enter, and what do u know..it exited the loginwindow service and still didnt bring up the mac interface...

I really need help on restoring my mac interface, or just booting normally..do i need to get the old kext files that i replaced and put them back into the Extensions folder? if so...please do tell me how i can do that...cause im really stuck :s...


Thanks in advance and i hope u can help me...

[NVS140M]

thanks for your working ,i'll try and sendfeeds back